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Alserkal Avenue · Dubai

Ava Gallery

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AVA Gallery is a commercial gallery in Warehouse 64, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, representing mid-career and established artists with a particular focus on contemporary Iranian and Iranian-diaspora practice. The programme engages with questions of identity, memory and cultural displacement across painting, photography, textile and mixed media.

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AVA Gallery occupies Warehouse 64 on Alserkal Avenue — a space that has chosen its artists carefully enough to invite Behrang Samadzadegan not just to show work but to curate. That distinction matters. Samadzadegan is a painter, critic and curator based between Tehran and Dubai who has exhibited at Leila Heller Gallery, Mohsen Gallery and internationally across Europe and the Americas. When AVA asked him to organise Now, Still We Gather, they were inviting someone whose curatorial instinct is as developed as his studio practice — and whose relationship to Iranian contemporary art is both deeply personal and rigorously critical. The programme that has emerged around AVA reflects that sensibility: Iranian and Iranian-diaspora artists working across photography, painting, textile and mixed media, presented in a warehouse space on an avenue that has always made room for practices that don't arrive with institutional backing already in place.

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Address

Warehouse 64, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1

Opening hours

Monday: 10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday: 10:00 – 18:00
Friday: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00

Phone

+971 4 333 3464

info@avagallery.art

Website

avagallery.art/

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Behrang Samadzadegan

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Behrang Samadzadegan was born in Tehran in 1979. He received his BFA from the Tehran University of Arts and his MFA from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. He has been a PhD candidate in the Art Practice programme at the Vienna Academy of Arts. His studio practice moves between painting, sculpture and installation, drawing from images and narratives of contemporary Iranian history combined with fictional stories and found sources — literature, Chinese toys, commercial illustrations, photographs. He questions normative values and systems of authority, and examines cultural and social identity through the aesthetics of painting. The image of history, he has written, is a personal matter: "a combination of confusion, chaos, and a futile quest for reaching unattainable truth." As a critic and curator he writes for art journals and has organised numerous exhibitions. He has been represented by Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai and shown internationally across Iran, Austria, the UK, the United States, Georgia and Australia. He has received residencies at Spike Island in Bristol, Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, and the Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artists Program. He curated Now, Still We Gather at AVA Gallery, Alserkal Avenue in 2026.